Poway Fire
The Poway Fire burned 1,637 acres in California, in 1995. It was discovered on August 31, 1995. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,637 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 1995
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,737 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.987, -116.866.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,637 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,737 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,681 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 1995
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- California
- Reporting unit
- San Diego Unit
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAMVU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3297311695019950831
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- CDF_1995_55_2223_799
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in California in 199512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbenia Fire | 23,455 | Aug 4, 1995 | Human |
| Vision Fire | 12,354 | Oct 3, 1995 | Human |
| Sycamore Fire | 9,410 | Aug 30, 1995 | Human |
| Midway Fire | 8,845 | Aug 15, 1995 | Human |
| El Monte Fire | 8,100 | Aug 27, 1995 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,495 | Jun 1, 1995 | Human |
| Butterfield Fire | 7,083 | Jun 19, 1995 | Human |
| Pole Fire | 5,550 | Jun 14, 1995 | Human |
| Covington Fire | 5,521 | Jul 31, 1995 | Natural |
| Stanley Fire | 5,000 | Jul 27, 1995 | Human |
| Dawson Fire | 4,591 | Jul 20, 1995 | Human |
| Apache Fire | 3,500 | Sep 25, 1995 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.